Watchdog

Well, it's been an interesting week here.

We banned certain pronouns, turned on Heather Mitts to the WatchDog phenomenon (with much help from Bob Glauber), watched too many hours of Mets games and began to sprout roots in the basement chair.

Next week: Probably at least one visit to Yankee Stadium. Shea? Who knows?

Should be quite a weekend.

HBO says you also should take a break from baseball and football and women's soccer to watch Saturday night's fight between Jermain Taylor and Kelly Pavlik in A.C.

Jim Lampley called it "a fight that harkens back to the days of boxing's broadest popularity, for easily identifiable reasons - two American stars, both unbeaten, both from blue-collar cities, both with entertaining hit-and-get-hit styles, the winner to emerge as undisputed ruler of one of the sport's most glamorous divisions. Poetically, it is the challenger who enters riding a tide of surging popularity and support, and the champion who must fight off mounting criticism for recent disappointing performances.''

There you have it.

And good luck, Mets fans.